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Montclair’s new rent control ordinance was granted its final approval on Tuesday, April 19, but it could be challenged by some two- and three-family property owners who want to be left out of any rent regulation. The law can’t take effect for 20 days after the Township Council’s unanimous vote — which gives residents time to put together a petition to have the issue instead brought to voters ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Washington state law to help ill Hanford nuclear reservation workers is moot, an attorney for Washington state argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday. After the court agreed to consider the appeal brought by the federal government against the state, the Washington state Legislature passed a new law this fall. The new law is retroactive, argued Tera Heintz, deputy ...

Three Quinnipiac University law school students were elected to the executive board of the National Black Law Student’s Northeastern Black Law Students Association regional chapter on Feb. 26. Quinnipiac law students Nataly Brown, Fontaine Chambers and Gabrielle Petrie represent the NBLSA’s values. According to NBLSA’s website, the organization’s mission is “to increase the number of cultural...

New York University campus. (Cincin12/Wikimedia Commons) New York Jewish Week — Jewish students at New York University School of Law have called on the university to investigate a pro-Palestinian group for emails they say crossed the line between criticism of Israel and antisemitism. Sent following an attack in Tel Aviv on April 7 in which two people were killed, the emails sent out by NYU La...

Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama. (Getty Images) Prosecutors, police, and even some legislators who voted for it say 'yes' MOBILE, Ala (WKRG) — There is a new crime law in Alabama that passed without police and prosecutors knowing much about it. They said they don’t like it. Several lawmakers who voted for it now said they’re not sure why they did. And the state senator who came u...

UConn's Paige Bueckers dribbles during a practice session for a college basketball game in the final round of the Women's Final Four NCAA tournament Saturday, April 2, 2022, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) HARTFORD – A proposed change in the state’s name, image and likeness law will remove a prohibition on college athletes with paid endorsement deals from using their school’s name logo,… ...

Jackson Lewis Law Firm Logo Ohio’s Surprise Billing Law, R.C. § 3902.51, became effective January 12, 2022, but its impact on health plans is still evolving. The law strives to prevent patients from receiving and paying surprise medical bills, specifically those stemming from unanticipated out-of-network care. While the Ohio Surprise Billing Law intends to shield insureds from surprise medica...

Gov. Janet Mills attends an event at the Blaine House, Friday, March 11, 2022, in Augusta, Maine. AUGUSTA, Maine — The Maine Senate gave final approval Tuesday to a bill that would expand a law shielding people who report drug overdoses, but the governor immediately asked lawmakers to take it back for revisions under threat of veto. Supporters say the so-called Good Samaritan law needs to be ...

New involuntary commitment law goes into effect this summer; new crisis center to open in Huntsville  WAAY

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Fentanyl is killing Mississippians, and a new law is aimed at cracking down on the drug dealers. It’s not intended to get the addicts in trouble. The families that gathered at the State Capitol Tuesday share a connection they wished they didn’t. “I don’t want him dying in vain,” said Linda Dove of her son. “It happened a couple of years ago; well, November will be two ...